Plenary Speakers & Invited Speakers

plenary speakers

John E. Bowers
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, USA


Title: Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits with Integrated Lasers

Abstract: Tremendous progress is being made at silicon photonic foundries around the world to improve the performance, yield and capability of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and that is opening up new markets, including quantum computing and sensing.  These results will be described with an emphasis on integrating lasers to PICs and the improvements in laser and system performance that are possible.

Bio:

John Bowers is Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and a professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests are primarily concerned with silicon photonics, optoelectronic devices, optical switching and transparent optical networks and quantum dot lasers. Bowers received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and then worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories before joining UCSB. Bowers is a fellow of the IEEE, OSA and the American Physical Society, and a recipient of the IEEE Photonics Award, OSA/IEEE Tyndall Award, the IEEE LEOS William Streifer Award and the South Coast Business and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors.

Graham Reed
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK


Title: Modulators & More

Abstract: We report plasma-dispersion modulators beyond 200Gb/s, a 100Gb/s O-band QCSE modulator on silicon, coupled to nitride, and our device trimming method is updated to high accuracy. Mid-IR results on laser/detector integration, spectrometers and broadband devices are reviewed, and the CORNERSTONE Photonics Innovation Centre is introduced.

Bio:

Graham Reed is a pioneer of Silicon Photonics having founded his group in 1989. The group moved to the Optoelectronics Research Centre (University of Southampton) in 2012, where Reed is now the Director. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, The IET, SPIE, Optica, and The European Optical Society.

Invited Speakers

Active Photonic Devices (APD)

Pandelis Diamantopoulos, NTT, Japan
Christopher Doerr, Aloe Semiconductor Inc, USA
Erik Norberg, OpenLight, USA

Emerging and Novel Applications (ENA)

Yuyao Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Amir Rosenthal, Technion, Israel

Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits and Systems (EPICS)

José Capmany, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Paolo Pintus, University of Cagliari, Italy
Xin Yin, Ghent University, Belgium

Heterogeneous Integration (HI)

Michael Strain, University Strathclyde, UK
Joris Van Campenhout, IMEC, Belgium

Novel Materials and Processes (NMP)

Jinshu Guo, Zhejiang University, China
Tobias Kippenberg, EPFL, Switzerland

Passive Photonic Devices (PD)

Frederic Gardes, University of Southhampton, UK
Takuo Tanemura, University of Tokyo, Japana